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Alex's notes
Personal blog · notes.alexkehayias.comaiprogramming
Alex's notes is a personal blog at notes.alexkehayias.com about ai and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link the author's notes as examples of their own Emacs setups, org-roam publishing workflow, and experiences using AI coding tools like goose and ChatGPT for elisp.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Alex's Notes
What Hacker News says?
So I gave goose a whirl and I actually really like the approach they are taking, especially because I use emacs and not vscode. I would recommend people try it out on an existing project—the results are quite good for small, additive features and even ones that are full stack. Here's a short writeup of my notes from trying to use it https://notes.alexkehayias.com/goose-coding-ai-agent/
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on “Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions”Submitted Thinking Better Thoughts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have a pretty similar workflow for publishing my personal notes which is exported using GitHub actions. https://notes.alexkehayias.com Relevant emacs init code here (a lot of hacks to get exporting to ox-hugo to work and improve performance): https://github.com/alexkehayias/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#... I find navigating notes with an interactive graph as not that useful for others. I mostly use org-roam-ui myse…
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on “My Org Roam Notes Workflow (2021)”You have to fill in some gaps (and occasional paranthesis) but it’s pretty darn good at writing elisp for improving your config. I find it’s helpful enough that you can take on medium hanging fruit that you wouldn’t attempt otherwise. For example, I wrote a minor mode for centering text, an org-export backend for Notion, and some plumbing for chatgpt-shell. https://notes.alexkehayias.com/using-chatgpt-with-emacs/
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on “My Emacs eye candy”> Open discourse is the central pillar of a free society, and is essential for holding governments accountable, empowering vulnerable groups, and reducing the risk of tyranny. Have fun hanging out at the Nazi bar then[1]. Don't drag us into it. It turns out, completely unrestricted speech actually has a massive negative effect on open discourse. Which is why we see more and more art, discourse, politics, etc. from m…
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on “The Westminster Declaration”